We here at Spectral Review are not paranormal investigators, demonologists, or drama critics. We don’t even play any of those on TV! But we do watch most paranormal shows and can tell the good ones from the bad.

Paranormal State episode report card.

“The Sensitive”

Black mists that may have demonic influence haunt a girl; Chip Coffey joins the team on the case and makes a psychic connection.

Paranormal State deals with a demon. Is this the comeback of the demon who shall remain nameless?

This is the last episode for the Paranormal State first season. Will it be a winner?

Client Credibility

The client is a teenager named Liana who lives with her family in Allentown, Pennsylvania. We are told that she does have some personal problems. She has felt tired and sick. And Liana tells us she has had difficulty emotionally and physically. Her “paranormal thing” did appear at the same time these problems did so she wonders if it is connected.

Liana has seen dark mists in her room.

Ryan appears to think that she might have a “possession” problem. He explains there are different kinds of possession. A spirit or a negative demonic could be the culprit.

Liana seems very credible. She might be confused and have problems other than the paranormal but she tells us basically she doesn’t know what is going on herself.

Investigation

They find high EMF ratings in the crawl space behind Liana’s bed. At about the location where she would lay her head down to sleep. They are not clear if this is normal bad wiring EMF or if they believe it’s somehow paranormal. Seems like to us it’s something electrical and we wonder if they really tried hard to debunk.

Ryan put some blessed medallions underneath her bed. Claiming that if there was possession going on she would not be comfortable in that bed. We hear later that she slept well.

Next they do “dead time”. They try to get some EVPs. They decide to go to the craft room where Liana feels uneasy to try to get EVPs. Katrina hears a weird noise. They investigate another room down the hall.

Katrina doesn’t like the room. Katrina doesn’t like the door. And Herbie doesn’t like to make toys.

Ryan opens the door and finds a sign that has the word ‘Hell’ on it in several places. Next we are treated to a commercial. As the show commences Ryan says “someone has failed to finish the word ‘hello’.” Then that’s it. Nothing more.

Someone doesn’t like the letter ‘o’.

Totally makes sense that someone would write ‘Hello’ but leave the ‘o’ off and do them last all at once…but never get back to finish it!

Next Chip Coffey is up after Ryan concludes that he was wrong about possession. So it’s official, that demon not to be named from the beginning of the series didn’t make a return visit to this final episode.

Chip ends up saying Liana is a medium. She seems to be discovering this herself. They did feel individually that a young African-American girl appears in the home. Liana tagged her name starting with the letter ‘A’. Chipper thought her name was Amanda.

Evidence

They thought that they caught one EVP. A humming spirit showed up during a second dead time. Apparently this spirit didn’t know the words. But several of the people heard it with their own ears during dead time. So it was kind of unique for this show, to actually get an EVP.

They did debunk a light in Liana’s room turning up at one point. Her bed appeared to be ruffled. Nothing on video showed her bed changing so that seemed to be debunked also.

Conclusion

Actually we thought this episode was one of their better ones. They did appear to catch one EVP, even though they didn’t let us hear it on the show. It did look like Ryan and the team helped their client which is very good.

So thats it for this series for now. We haven’t heard if the show is going to return for a second season. Shows created by cable networks are much more tight-lipped about these things. We have not read any press releases touting rating successes that would give us an idea that it will be back.

Let’s hope so. This show does have potential and a second season could be better.